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Briefly from Forbes:
"1. So the Seahawks beat the 49ers to go to the Super Bowl, and Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman made the game-saving play, and Erin Andrews interviewed him on the field immediately after the game, and he hollered like a crazy person:
2. Within seconds people on social media were calling him a fool, a thug, a classless jerk and many worse things.
3. Sherman is black, and so of course there was an undercurrent of race to some — OK, a lot — of the discussion.
4. Sherman graduated second in his class in high school and also graduated from Stanford. So not only is he not a fool, odds are he’s smarter than you and me.
5. His degree from Stanford was in communications … which might explain why, while he seemed to be hollering like a crazy person, he didn’t curse and looked into the camera the whole time.
6. In other words, he might have just been auditioning for the WWE.
7. Maybe 15 minutes later, when Sherman sat down with the Fox NFL guys, he was calm and funny.
8. If you stick a microphone in a football player’s face seconds after he made a huge play to send his team to the Super Bowl, you shouldn’t be surprised if he’s a little amped up."
See the rest at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tommyto...houghts-about-that-richard-sherman-interview/
To be honest, I personally think the term thug has been overused for a long time. I noticed when the huge fight between the pacers and the knicks broke up back in the late 90's (or early 00's I forget) people referred to the actions of the players as "thugs." Yet, when Hockey players fight nobody calls them thugs because "it's apart of the game." I really tend to think that these terms are largely used towards men of color especially when they display erratic behavior. Despite what he did, he did something good for the game. He not only created a buzz around his name but he will also have people watching the Superbowl in hopes of watching him lose which creates more ratings. What he did was a major boost to the NFL.
"1. So the Seahawks beat the 49ers to go to the Super Bowl, and Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman made the game-saving play, and Erin Andrews interviewed him on the field immediately after the game, and he hollered like a crazy person:
2. Within seconds people on social media were calling him a fool, a thug, a classless jerk and many worse things.
3. Sherman is black, and so of course there was an undercurrent of race to some — OK, a lot — of the discussion.
4. Sherman graduated second in his class in high school and also graduated from Stanford. So not only is he not a fool, odds are he’s smarter than you and me.
5. His degree from Stanford was in communications … which might explain why, while he seemed to be hollering like a crazy person, he didn’t curse and looked into the camera the whole time.
6. In other words, he might have just been auditioning for the WWE.
7. Maybe 15 minutes later, when Sherman sat down with the Fox NFL guys, he was calm and funny.
8. If you stick a microphone in a football player’s face seconds after he made a huge play to send his team to the Super Bowl, you shouldn’t be surprised if he’s a little amped up."
See the rest at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tommyto...houghts-about-that-richard-sherman-interview/
To be honest, I personally think the term thug has been overused for a long time. I noticed when the huge fight between the pacers and the knicks broke up back in the late 90's (or early 00's I forget) people referred to the actions of the players as "thugs." Yet, when Hockey players fight nobody calls them thugs because "it's apart of the game." I really tend to think that these terms are largely used towards men of color especially when they display erratic behavior. Despite what he did, he did something good for the game. He not only created a buzz around his name but he will also have people watching the Superbowl in hopes of watching him lose which creates more ratings. What he did was a major boost to the NFL.
